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A net for catching the larger sorts of birds; also, a dragnet. Crabb.

ened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.

A rod which unites the drawgear at opposite ends of the car, and bears the pull required to draw the train.

See Drawing knife.

The spring to which a drawbar is attached.

To harden. [Obs.] It will embrawn and iron-crust his flesh. Nash.

To sew up, so nicely that the seam is not perceived; to renter. Marryat.

One who finedraws.

Drawn out with too much subtilty; overnice; as, finedrawn speculations.

Drawn in.

An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence. Milton.

The common bedstraw (Galium verum); also, a slender-leaved East Indian shrub (Pharnaceum Mollugo), with white flowers in umbels.

Extended to a great length. The cicadæ hushed their long-drawn, ear-splitting strains. G. W. Cable.

To draw out; to extract. [R.] "He must the teeth outdraw." Gower.

by awe or great fear. The king was present in person to overlook the magistrates, and overawe these subjects with the terror of his sword. Spenser.

Awful, or reverential, in an excessive degree. [R.] Milton.

To exaggerate; to overdo.

To overstrew. [Obs.] Shak.

andalus, Palæmon, Palæmonetes, and Peneus, and are much used as food. The common English prawn in Palæmon serratus.

To draw again; to make a second draft or copy of; to redraft.